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FURTHER

TYPHOON

INCIDENTS.

ALARMING NEWS FROM MACAO.

B. AND S. STEAMER HELD UP.

MUCH DISTRESS AMONG NATIVE CRAFT.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29rn, «1926

Reports obtained yesterday gave further details of the toll exacted by the typhoon, the most alarming report being that from Macas relating to the feared disaster to the fishing fleet of 700 junks and their crews, which are "understood to have been out at sea when the gal was Comider- at its worst. Confirmation, however, could not be obtained. able damage was done to the sea-front and in the barbour at Macao, a number of Harbour Works' craft being sunk.

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Locally, the outstanding feature was the report received concerning the B. & S. steamer Aweigung, which, encountering the full force of the typhoon, suffered a breakdown to her steering gear and had to remain * off Gap Rock until towed in late last evening by the Kowloon, Dock salvage tug, Henry Keswick.

Reports regarding other distressed shipping were also received; while it was also ascertained that many antivé crait, fishing and cargo junks, caught unawart, and away from shelters suffered severely, in several instances loss of life being recorded. FISHING FLEET": MISSING.

HUGE LOSS OF LIFE FEARED.

HARBOUR CRAFT SUNK.

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An alarming report was, received, from Macao yesterday morning to the effect that practically the whole of the Macao fishing fleet and at least 2,000 fisher-folk, bad been lost in the typhoon.

The fleet consisted of 700 junks, and was stated to have left for the open ses before the typhoon come on, and up to yesterday no nows had been heard of

them.

No confirmation of this report could be ascertained, Enquiries were mado en the s.3. Taishan on her arrival from Ancaq yesterday evening, but except that the fear of the disaster was prevalent in definite report was forth

Macao no coming..

It is quite safe, to assume that much distress was experienced among fishing) craft in the vicinity of Macao, Kwong Chow Wan and Lantag

Yesterday several junk-wrecks were zeen drifting in the open sea.

A report by the Customs at Macao yesterday was to the effect that a passer- ger junk was on the rocks outside Macao, and that the whole crew, numbering. 68," had been drowned,

Considerable Harbour Damage. Considerable damage was done on the ses-front and in the Macao Harbour. In the harbour, five lighters, one dredger and a floating crane, belonging to the Netherlands Harbour Works Company, were sunk. Several other lighters were stranded.

On Shore,

The streets were deserted throughout bour were dashed so high that some of the day. Waves even at the inner har- front were the shops near the river flooded. Communication was, "entirely interrupted for several houre and business establishments were closed. The ela tricity was affected in several places. Several old buildings collapsed

Gunboat In Distress. The Portuguese gunboat facan had distressing time in the typhoon. Her foremast was blown away and damage done to other parts of the vessel.

When the full report of the effect of the typhoon comes from Macao, it is be- lieved that heavy loss of life, particularly on the sea, will be known. The velocity of the wind was at times 100 miles an hour.

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FISHING. FLEET CAUGHT.

SEVERAL FISHERFOLK DROWNED.

were

A native fishing fleet went out from Hongkong on Sunday afternoon and was caught in the gale. The boats driven hither and hither. Several found shelter, but some must have foundered, and it is feared that many of the occu- pants were drowned. Several of the boats got back to the harbour yesterday.

Boat People Saved. "A big

cargo. junk, laden with kerosene crew managed to beach her in Deep and Water Bay. The crew were fed attended to by European residents in, the locality, and later were sheltered in the village.

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M. KARAKHAN AND CHRISTIAN GENERAL.

was known on Monday that the Are VISITORS TO CANTON. yang had encountered the typhoon ind that she had received a severs buffsting from the gale and heavy seas. This was sufficient to delay her, arrival in port, which should have been reached on Mon- day, but so severe was the effect of the typhoon on her, that her steering geag

broke down, and she was unable to make

port.

She was held up off Gap Rock, but although exposed to the elementa, was in no danger. Various messages were received from time to time by Messrs. Butterfeld and Swire regarding her posi- tion and notifying them of the fact that everything apart from the break-" down was all right.

The Aweiyang remained off Gap Rock all Monday night and during yesterday, All 11 am yesterday the Henry Keswick was despatched to the scene to tow the distressed vessel in.

On enquiry at Messrs. Butterfield and Swire yesterday we were informed that very little information had been received by them concerning the extent of the damage. So far as they were aware the damage only amounted to the breakdown mentioned, but that the engines were effected, na rumoured. Being without rudder -control, the Kimeiyang was thus prevented from moving from the position in which she had taken up safe an- chorage.

with.

SCHOOL TEACHERS HELD FOR RANSOM,

T

MERCHANTS CONFIDENT BOYCOTT

IS ENDING.

(FROM OUR CHINESE CORAJAPONDENT.]

As I have already reported Bolshevik circles in Canton invited M Karakhan, the retiring Soviet Ambassador At Peking, and Feng Yu Hsiang, the de- feated commander of the Kuominichun Army who has just returned to Kaasu from Moscow, to pay a visit to Canton. It is now stated that f. Karakhan is coming to Canton and that Feng, the Christian General, expects to leave Kansu for Kwangtung soon.

LA Shanghai report states that Comrade karakhan lett. Shanghai for Canton on September end and will remain at the latter plan for a tew days, returning to shaagiai en route to Moscow. If this report is true M. Karakhan should "how- be in Canton.}

We were further informed that the Kweiyang would arrive in the harbour between 8-30 and 9 o'clock last night. She was then to be towed to quarantine. Reds, and Anti-Reds" are trying In the Ping Hoi district two junks sunk This morning" she is to leave the quar

two men were drowned. The re-antine anchorage and proceed to her to enlist the support of militarists and maining members of he crew were picked boy passengers will disembark, and the politicians and rumours circulate daily discharge of cargo will be proceeded regarding this and that personage having up by another junk

Provided the damage to the steering one from one side to the other or gear is not more serious than is antiback again, scarcely think that thes necessary will be carried out while the cipated, it is very likely that all repairs rumours are worth repeating. yessel is at the buoy, thus avoiding go. would not help. the foreigner to under- in icto dock.

stand the situation. It is practically! impossible even for a Cantonese in close; touch with affairs to draw up an accurate "Who's Who in local politics in these days.

At Tai Kok Tsui, a junk with one mán on board broke from her moorings and drifted to Stonecutters' Island where she

The 1000,

got "safely ashore. Two other junks were wrecked

was

wrecked.

at Stonecutters' but fortunately with no loss of life. A crew of six on one of the boats were rescued by a police launch.

European's Body Recovered.

The body of Mr. Jan Blankenvoort, who, as recorded yesterday, was blown into the Harbour by typhoon winds and drowned, was recovered yuterday at about 1.30 p.m. The body was found only a few yards from where the decaesed

fell in.

Hurled To Death,

Whilst walking on the hillside at Sai Wan Ho, a Chinese woman was blown of her feet, hurled into a forty feet quarry

and killed.

Advertisement Boards,

some

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STEAMER BREAKS AWAY.

STRIKES ROCK NEAR LANTAU

INDIAN AND "CHILD DROWNED.

A newly constructed river steamer, which broke away from its moorings in a shipbuilder's yard during the typhoon, drifted swiftly away, crashing into the Stanley in the course of its career before the gale.

The steamer, which was not completed, Cheung Sha Wan She had on board a was anchored off the Ching Lai yard at Chinese watchman, two Indians and an

| Indian child. When the vessel collided with the Stanley the Chinese jumped on Mr. Charles, of the Roxar Advertising board the latter vessel, and was thus Company, has reported to the police that saved. The steamer was carried a long during the galo

advertisement distance and struck a rock between Tung boards behind Victoria View, Peking Chan and Lantau. One of the Indians Rond, were blown down and have 20txot safely ashore, but the other Indian since been seen.

and the child were drowned. The steamer was a vessel of 850 loss and damage is Pillorers Of Typhoon Fletsam,,

estimated at $100,000. There is a danger There are some who can rejoice even of the steamer breaking up as she is during typhoons. These are the gather-armly wedged or the rocks. ers of the flotsam that drift on to the shore, the fallen branches of trees, any- thing useful which lica either on the road ways or the beaches.

A number of such persons were before toe Kowloon Magistrate. yesterday, and to them he said: "You people seem to rejoice when a typhoon comes, and you think you ought to take the opportunity of helping yourself to whatever you find.

Two defendants were charged with

▸

It was alleged that the first defendant stole the tubs and the pieces of wood from a junk which had drifted ashore off Kowloon Bay.

When the owner went to defendant and. demsaded his property, defendant was alleged to have replied: "If it is yours, let us fight it out."

Another Steamer.

4.

Both the vessels which broke adrift

from the shipyard were being construct ed from the Fook Yuen Steamship Co. Other Vessels.

They

As far war news" is concerned all! that can be said is that the absence of. the reports of further victories is handi; capping the sale of Kuoliutang war bonds. News of constant successes is needed to push these bonds on the

been held in Canton over the capture of market. The celebration that was to have Nanchang, has been postponed but the one celebrating the fall of Toysban was held according to plan although later":c-| ports recorded the defeat instead of the victory of the Southern troops.

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Educational Difficulties. The Kwangtung University and the First and the Second Kwangtung Middle Schools, have been unable to re-open for the autumn-session in full. The students of the schools have gone on strike, de- Another river steamer, also incomplet-manding the removal of their principals. ed, broke away from the Ching Lai yard The Kwangtung University, as already during the typhoon, but was recovered near the Standard Oil Company's In reported in the Daily Press, is unable stallation at Lai Chi Kok.

to resume functioning on. Becount of the refusal of M. Borodin, the Soviet High Commissioner to South China, to ɓaance it, unless the Soviet appointee, Mr. Ching pleaded that they found it feating near off Kowloon Dock, was still aground According to Kuomintang reports. "Reds" unlawful possession of a plank. They The s.s. Confucina, which was stranded Heng. Yu, is accepted as acting president. the shore and picked it up. They were yesterday, and with the lowering of the bound over.

tide it is said that is may take two or in Heungshan did not raid the Normal Tubs From a Junk.

three days before she can be re-floated. School of that district to search for Three other Chinese were charged with We have been unable to ascertain whe-"anti-Red" literature. The fact is that stealing two wooden tubs, several pieces ther she has sustained any damage. of wood, and with resisting arrest.

The 8.5. Milton and as. Tanyition some robbers on the evening of September which, as reported yesterday, broke 24th, disguised as "Reds," attacked the away from their moorings and were institution and took away two teachers, leashed together off Green Island, were six students, and two servants for rab towed back to the harbour yesterday morning by the Henry Keswick.

som, besides & quantity of valuables. The It is reported that the ss. Pheumpenh, Kuomintang will order an investigation a local vessel engaged in carrying rice of the outrage, it is understood, should from Saigon to Hongkong is now four days overdue for this port. No con- the school care to file a complaint. firmation was obtainable yesterday re- garding this, and it is not known whe

she has met with any mishap, or has otherwise delayed in reaching here.

Mr. Raymond's Yacht,

reported yesterday that the vachi Jean, belonging to Mr. E. M. Raymond, of Messrs. Moxon and Taylor, broke from her moorings at The workers of the John G. Kerr Repulse Bay after a severe buffeting in Hospital for the Insane in Fongtsuen, the series of squalls, and drifted towards Canton, are threatening to go on strike the rocky islands at the eastern entrance. as a protest against alleged ill-treatment When the wind relaxed, just in time to by their employers. The Kuomintang avoid destruction to the yacht, the an Labour Division is mediating to prevent His Worship dismissed all the defen-chors found better holding ground, and the closing of the institution.

able to ride the dants on the first charge for lack of the Ladye Jean was

It was learned yesterday, how- evidence, but sentenced the Bret and storm."

Mr. Li Chang Tet has tendered his re attempt was made by the three Chinese, the second charge.."

who were on board as crew, to sail the and Tang Shao Yin, as Municipal racht to Aberdeen or Repulse Bay. The Treasurer,

The Boycott. wind proved too strong, however, and the yacht was carried away. The Kau Sing. Notwithstanding the opposition that visited the scene, but as "there was has been manifested to a termination of Water Police Launch there the left. Up the boycott, the merchants in Canton to last night no trace of the yacht had both foreign and Chinese are confident been found, and she is still missing. It that traße between Hongkong and Canton in hoped, however, that she will be able will be resumed very shortly. to weather her way back again.

The complainant refused and reported the matter the police.

A Chinese detective was sent to the place, and when the first defendant. was asked his name, he refused to give it

Policeman Assaulted.

The detective's band was hit by the first defendant when the former tried to arrest him; and the second and third defendants were alleged to have aided the first defendant in resisting arrest.

The third man told his Worship that he had nothing to do with the case, as he was only a neighbour of the frat defen-

dant.

The "Red" students in Pui-Ching Baptist "Academy at Tungshun . tea Canton City have been causing trouble for some time, and the authorities are thinking of closing part of the school.

The Trinity College in. Canton has not re-opened this autumn owing to certain "Red" opposition.

Resignations.

for Swatow, was badly battered, but the second to fourteen days', hard labour on ever, that early on Monday evening signation as Chief of Police of Cantos)

KWEIYANG'S" EVENTFUL

VOYAGE. TYPHOON CAUSES BREAKDOWN IN STEERING GEAR.

TOWED IN LAST NIGHT FROM GAP ROCK.

Clinging To Wreckage. Capt. S. B. Spillett, master of R.F.A. Francol, reported to the police yester day that on the previous day he picked up from a piece of wreckage at the entrance to Lyemun Pass, two Chinese belonging to a fahing junk which bad foundered. The junk had a crew of 27, Among the belated reports which came including 21 men, 4 women and 2 child to hand yesterday with regard to the ren. Five of the crew clung to a piece distress experienced among ships owing to of wreckage and were later picked up the typhoon, was that concerning the B. alive in Chai Wan Bay. The remainder and S. steamer Aweiyang (China Naviga- are all believed to have been drowned. tion Company) which, encountering the A small barbour boat which was tied full, force of the typhoon on Monday, up near the seashore near Tau Kok suffered a breakdown in her steering broke from its moorings and was carried gear, which held her up c Gap Rock, away to ses. Another boat anchored in powerless to make port until towed in Hunghom Bay was dashed, aginst the wall last evening by the Kowloor Dock salvage

tug Henry Keswick. and smashed" to bits.

Junk Disasters, we

THE WEATHER..

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CHIANG KAI SHEK AND The rainfall for the twenty-four hours |

MARSHAL SUN. ending at 10 a.m. yesterday "was 1.18

SUGGESTED COMPROMISE. inches.

The Observatory report at 11.35 am.

According to a Shanghai report Gea. read:-

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